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CIA-LINKED EXTRAORDINARY-RENDITION PLANE LANDED IN LIBYA WHILE UN APPROVED LIBYA INCURSION

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This morning the LATimes published the following:

"In addition, current and former American officials say that CIA operatives and equipment were sent into rebel-held areas to monitor the opposition forces' activity even before the air bombardment began. It's not clear whether those operatives are still in Libya, and if so, what their current role is." (latimes.com/news/politics/la-fg-libya-rebels-20110324,0,3195209.story)

Now this article popped up.

I don't like coincidences with the CIA. We'll see what develops.

Has anyone else heard anything about the CIA in Libya lately?

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http://politicalscrapbook.net/2011/03/the-n799ww-mystery-cia-linked-plane-left-l...

The N799WW mystery: CIA-linked plane left Libya on eve of action
6:20pm Tue March 22nd


What exactly was a CIA-linked jet doing landing in Tripoli as the UN Security Council met to approve military action? Exchanges with air traffic control recorded by amateur radio hams (http://audioboo.fm/boos/306622-mystery-flight-n799ww-landing-mitiga-libya-hllm) show a plane with registration N799WW was cleared for landing at Mitiga International Airport 11km east of Tripoli on the evening of 17 March.

The Bombardier BD-700 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombardier_Global_Express) plane is registered (http://www.taxiwayalpha.com/fleets/profile.php?aircraft=58031) to Wells Fargo Bank Northwest NA, a subsidiary of US superbank Wells Fargo & Company. What has set tongues wagging is that the same subsidiary is the trustee for a Raytheon Hawker aircraft with a tail number N168BF (http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Wells_Fargo_Bank_Northwest_NA) which was allegedly used for extraordinary rendition flights by the CIA.
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53 comments // CIA-LINKED EXTRAORDINARY-RENDITION PLANE LANDED IN LIBYA WHILE UN APPROVED LIBYA INCURSION

  • BrushwithDeathToothpaste
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      BrushwithDeathToothpaste  

    • Hmm a CIA jet that is registered to the same airline that was used for rendition landed in Tripoli. This means rendition is still being used? The dots you are connecting are pretty far apart. But you have fun with that.

    • 1 year ago
  • jeniferalmond
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      jeniferalmond  

    • I'l tell ya what they're doing there...the same thing they did in Egypt...it's the military-industrial complex there to control and instigate a war based purely on domination of its rich energy sources. Oh, and don't forget they're role in spreading political confusion or their efforts to control the ENTIRE region in order to entice a "unified Middle-East"!

    • 1 year ago
  • samthesixth
  • noxidereus
  • samthesixth
  • noxidereus
  • August_K
    • +1
      August_K  

    • If they dropped off satellite phones and stuff to make sure that bombs didn't land on civilians....that's fine by me.

    • 1 year ago
  • ArchDruid
  • good_stuff
    • 0
      good_stuff  
    • ArchDruid:

      That is stupid. We need to let the people unite to overcome so they are in a position to start a new unified government when given the chance. If we go in and fix the problem then we'll just create a void of power and everyone will be fighting for who should take control next. The people will have different opinions and won't back the new government if their candidate doesn't get picked. This shit takes time that I don't think we can really comprehend in our instant gratification era we live in.

    • 1 year ago
  • Mikeysfake1
  • dudefromtherock
  • KB723
  • August_K
    • +1
      August_K  
    • dudefromtherock:

      Hilary said they were hearing chatter about how Gaddafi and friends were saying "what now, and how do we get out of this" when the bombing started. She said none was confirmed but it was all consistent in content.

    • 1 year ago
  • August_K
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      August_K  
    • KB723:

      I wouldn't put it past some greedy bankers to go help him safeguard his gold.

      Read an article about Citibank trying to get some wealthy drug lords from south america to invest their money with them. Of course the drug lords blew them off.....saying they already had a bank that they worked with (laundering their money) so the guy from Citibank did what any respectable greedy banker would do....they found out which bank it was and they BOUGHT IT !!! LOL

    • 1 year ago
  • KB723
  • Colin_McCabe
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      Colin_McCabe  

    • In this instance it's likely the CIA was funneling some people out and smuggling some in. Likely people who will provide information back to command as well as provide meetings with key rebel forces.

    • 1 year ago
  • ThatCrazyLibertarian
  • August_K
  • KB723
  • KSirys
  • KB723
  • KSirys
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      KSirys  
    • KB723:

      lol.. you answered it before... the government bailed them out, while wells fargo allows the government to use their planes for rendition...

    • 1 year ago
  • KB723
  • KSirys
  • DualitybyNature
  • irie_ojo
  • KB723
  • Leen61
  • kennymotown
  • coucheliberale
  • kennymotown
  • Colin_McCabe
    • +3
      Colin_McCabe  
    • coucheliberale:

      The President doesn't know half of what is happening because of a thing called plausible deniability. I'd also like to point out that the idiot white guy you idiots voted for got us into the longest wars in American history and crippled the nation. Just sayin...

    • 1 year ago
  • dudefromtherock
  • ArchDruid
  • a619ko
  • KSirys
    • +3
      KSirys  
    • kennymotown:

      Another question is, when is advocating change and disagreeing with the government become a crime? I can imagine anyone questioning the governments move is going to get put on the list... but on a rendition list?

    • 1 year ago
  • kennymotown
  • riverratt50
  • riverratt50
  • August_K
  • samthesixth
  • kennymotown
  • ZiggyStrange
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      ZiggyStrange  

    • Give me a break.

      What do you think the CIA plane was doing there right before we established a No Fly Zone?

      Getting people out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    • 1 year ago
  • trut
  • Milieu
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      Milieu  
    • ZiggyStrange:

      I'm supposed to take the word of "A Grey"? Ha

      It's you and your fellow Greys that have been manipulating this planet for millennia.
      It's time you stepped up to the plate and straightened out this mess. :D

    • 1 year ago
  • ZiggyStrange
  • riverdeer
  • PoliticalAmazon
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      PoliticalAmazon  

    • Here's another very well-researched article, questioning the invasion of Libya.

      This is something that has been bothering me, too. How much do we really know about what was going on in Libya before the U.S./U.N. invasion started? What was the status of the country and the people who lived there?

      Who are these rebels? Who has funded them?

      Agreed, Kadafi is a class-1 brutal ruler, and his reaction to rebels was much more horrific than necessary (from my vantage point here in the U.S.).

      But I think, with Obama already lying about what his intentions are in Libya, we need to ask a few questions about what really is going on over there.

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      http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=23474

      The World Cheers as the CIA Plunges Libya Into Chaos

      by David Rothscum

      How was Libya doing under the rule of Gadaffi? How bad did the people have it? Were they oppressed as we now commonly accept as fact? Let us look at the facts for a moment.

      Before the chaos erupted, Libya had a lower incarceration rate than the Czech republic. It ranked 61st. Libya had the lowest infant mortality rate of all of Africa. Libya had the highest life expectancy of all of Africa. Less than 5% of the population was undernourished. In response to the rising food prices around the world, the government of Libya abolished ALL taxes on food.

      People in Libya were rich. Libya had the highest gross domestic product (GDP) at purchasing power parity (PPP) per capita of all of Africa. The government took care to ensure that everyone in the country shared in the wealth. Libya had the highest Human Development Index of any country on the continent. The wealth was distributed equally. In Libya, a lower percentage of people lived below the poverty line than in the Netherlands.

      How does Libya get so rich? The answer is oil. The country has a lot of oil, and does not allow foreign corporations to steal the resources while the population starves, unlike countries like Nigeria, a country that is basically run by Shell.

      Like any country, Libya suffers from a government with corrupt bureaucrats that try to gain a bigger portion of the pie at the cost of everyone else. In response to this, Kadaffi called for the oil revenue to be distributed directly to the people, because in his opinion, the government was failing the people. However, unlike the article claims, Kadaffi is not the president of Libya. In fact he holds no official position in the government. This is the big mistake that people make. They claim that Kadaffi rules over Libya when in fact he doesn't, his position is more or less ceremonial. He should be compared to a founding father.

      The true leader of Libya is an indirectly elected prime-minister. The current prime-minister is Baghdadi Mahmudi. Calling Khadaffi the leader of Libya is comparable to calling Akihito the leader of Japan. Contrary to what your media is sketching, opinions in Libya vary. Some people support Gadaffi but want Mahmudi out. Others want both out. Many just want to live their life in peace. However, effort is taken to sketch the appearance of a popular revolt against the supposed leader of Libya, Gadaffi, when in fact he is just the architect of Libya's current political system, a mixture of pan-Arabism, socialism, and Islamic government.....

      (article continues at url)

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    • 1 year ago
  • artemis6
    • -1
      artemis6  
    • PoliticalAmazon:

      Thank you for this insightful post . I too felt we did not have near enough info to make a good call on this . I prefer to really understand a situation , before Bombing anywhere . We were rushed into Afghanistan too .....

    • 1 year ago
  • August_K
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      August_K  
    • PoliticalAmazon:

      "Who are these rebels? Who has funded them?"

      Didn't you watch the protests? They were ordinary people who were sick of Gaddafi stealing all the wealth while the people were barely getting by...... and as far as funding....you mean their weapons? I didn't see many at all until they raided some arms depot to defend themselves.
      All the news reports say they're just rag-tag rebels (former protesters) with nobody really in charge.

    • 1 year ago
  • August_K
    • +1
      August_K  
    • PoliticalAmazon:

      Who wrote that?
      How do you explain this then? Doesn't sound like he was "just" a figurehead.

      "WASHINGTON — In 2009, top aides to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi called together 15 executives from global energy companies operating in Libya’s oil fields and issued an extraordinary demand: Shell out the money for his country’s $1.5 billion bill for its role in the downing of Pan Am Flight 103 and other terrorist attacks.

      If the companies did not comply, the Libyan officials warned, there would be “serious consequences” for their oil leases, according to a State Department summary of the meeting.

      Many of those businesses balked, saying that covering Libya’s legal settlement with victims’ families for acts of terrorism was unthinkable. But some companies, including several based in the United States, appeared willing to give in to Libya’s coercion and make what amounted to payoffs to keep doing business, according to industry executives, American officials and State Department documents.

      The episode and others like it, the officials said, reflect a Libyan culture rife with corruption, kickbacks, strong-arm tactics and political patronage since the United States reopened trade with Colonel Qaddafi’s government in 2004. As American and international oil companies, telecommunications firms and contractors moved into the Libyan market, they discovered that Colonel Qaddafi or his loyalists often sought to extract millions of dollars in “signing bonuses” and “consultancy contracts” — or insisted that the strongman’s sons get a piece of the action through shotgun partnerships."

      http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/24/world/africa/24qaddafi.html

      And THIS is from an article that was written before the protests even began.

      Tuesday, 1st February 2011
      When will mass protest come to Libya?

      "As several seemingly permanent Middle Eastern autocracies tremble, Colonel Gadaffi’s Libya rolls on. So far, there have been reports of minor protests in the localities about housing shortages, nothing more.

      With unemployment standing at 30 percent, the Libyan people are just as impoverished as those in neighbouring Tunisia and Egypt. Gadaffi’s dictatorship is scarcely benevolent, and, as for liberalisation, Libya remains one of the few completely dry countries on Earth. The secret of Gadaffi’s success then would appear to be expressing aggressive anti-American sentiment, whilst suppressing Islamism and democratic opposition at home."

    • 1 year ago
  • August_K
  • artemis6
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      artemis6  
    • August_K:

      No TV where i live , and even if there was , were you sure we should go into afghanistan ? It seems very sudden . Not enough reporting about the people and why they were protesting .

    • 1 year ago
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